List of Roman governors of Arabia Petraea

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This is a list of known governors of the Arabia Petraea . Created in AD 106 following its annexation by the Roman emperor Trajan, it was governed by a senatorial legate until 262, when Gallienus transferred the governorship to equestrian Praesides . It returned to Senatorial appointees with the sole rule of Constantine I after 324, which continued until the province was lost in the 630s.

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Legati Augusti pro praetor Arabiae (106–262)

Equestrian Praesides Arabiae (262–324)

Senatorial Praesides Arabiae (324–630)

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  1. ↑ The section from 107 to 305 is based on Glen Warren Bowersock, Roman Arabia (Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1994), pp. 160-163
  2. ↑ Werner Eck, "Die Fasti consulares der Regierungszeit des Antoninus Pius, eine Bestandsaufnahme seit Géza Alföldys Konsulat und Senatorenstand" in Studia epigraphica in memoriam Géza Alföldy, hg. W. Eck, B. Feher, and P. Kovács (Bonn, 2013), p. 75 n. 20
  3. ↑ Bauzou Thomas, "Les fastes de la province d'Arabie et les inscriptions milliaires", Syria 68 (1991), pp. 446-448
  4. ↑ Date taken from Leunissen, Konsuln und Konsulare in der Zeit von Commodus bis Severus Alexander (180-235 n. Chr), (Amsterdam: J.C. Gieben, 1989), p. 267
  5. 1 2 Date taken from Leunissen, Konsuln und Konsulare, p. 268
  6. ↑ Thomas, "Les fastes de la province d'Arabie", pp. 448-450
  7. ↑ Leunissen, Konsuln und Konsulare, p. 179
  8. ↑ Thomas, "Les fastes de la province d'Arabie", pp. 450-452
  9. ↑ Instead of "Caecilius Felix", as argued in Sandrine Agusta-Boularot, Adnan Mujjali et Jacques Seigne, "Un 'nouveau' gouverneur d'Arabie sur un milliaire inédit de la voie Gerasa/Adraa", Mélanges de l'École française de Rome: Antiquité, 110 (1998), pp. 243-260
  10. ↑ Thomas, "Les fastes de la province d'Arabie", pp. 452-456
  11. ↑ Thomas, "Les fastes de la province d'Arabie", pp. 456f
  12. ↑ The section from 343 through the 6th century is based on Arnold Hugh Martin Jones, John Robert Martindale, and John Morris, The Prosopography of the Later Roman Empire, Vol. I (A.D. 260-395), (Cambridge: University Press, 1971), pp. 1106-1107; and Jones, Martindale, and Morris, The Prosopography of the Later Roman Empire, Vol. II (A.D. 395-527), (Cambridge: University Press, 1971), p. 1285

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